Folk Tales of Japan: 28 Japanese folk tales with cultural commentary

Great short reads - bath time companion can be picked up and put down easily..

It's a great read for anyone interested in Japanese culture. The author mixes stories with his own cultural insights in a way that is engaging, entertaining, and educational! I devoured this book in a day, and it even gave some great ideas on where to go when I visit Japan next month.

This book is part folk tales, and part Japanese history...and 100% fun to read. Still going through it but not because it's difficult reading, I'm just pacing myself. I recommend this to anyone interested in Japanese history and culture.

The author does entertaining and informative shorts on YouTube. This book is just entertaining and informative. Love reading this book

Enjoyed it, will get the other 2 as well soon!

It's very brief though the stories are great with good insight to the background of Japanese culture

I love these! short pithy interesting tales of Japan. I like his youtube videos too

Was interesting to hear all these folk tales and learn the background on them. The author does a great job on making this engaging.

Wonderfully written book of Japenese folktales that has fed my curiosity and fascination that I have for cultural artistic and folklore ,Asiatic but in particular Japanese, this book is informative witty and sad at times ,,clearly written and presented with some beautiful illustrations , a real little gem !

The stories in this book are short and entertaining. Kyota’s commentary on each story is both insightful and entertaining. As a person who wants to learn more about Japanese culture but doesn’t have the time a lot of time to read, this book is perfect. It’s also small enough to fit into most jacket/coat pockets. I look forward to purchasing and reading more of his books.

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As a sporadic student of the Japanese language and culture for many years, I’ve not come across a more engaging and skilled storyteller. His engaging, approachable, empathic knowledgeable communication style is outstanding. Those of us who are attempting to understand a culture very different to the western one we’ve been raised in will undoubtedly appreciate his no nonsense witty explanations. The tales he explains in his books give a fantastic insight into not only the Japanese culture but also into what it is to be human. Outstanding! Looking forward to devouring whatever you publish next.

Ok, I have finished this one too. Interesting and cruel stories sometimes. I really enjoyed the story about the boy who drew cats (although it was hard to understand how parents could send their child away because he drew cats). Anyway, i purchased Horror Tales of Japan: 21 Japanese folktales of the same author so, yeah, I recommend it for the wise, cruel, strange and funny stories.